1:10 Excuse me, but the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was, in fact, alien. Granted, it was a big rock, but it was still a big-ass extra-terrestrial rock.
That is the most likely cause for the dinosaur's extinction because most evidence suggests this but there is no definitive answer so it's more of a theory than fact. Also it was an asteroid not a meteor that this theory is centered around(a meteor which is a chunk of a comet or asteroid would've been too small to cause such havoc.) But yeah the thought of the look on the dino's faces when this "supposed" earth shattering rock coming to kill them makes me wonder if they called the asteroid Dwayne.
In high school and college I built small ionocraft, similar in concept to the WEMAVs, and powered them with the necessary 30-50kV using the flyback transformer from CRT monitors or televisions. Constructed in a triangular shape, taking advantage of Faraday's principle of charge accumulation, a high voltage corona wire would ionize the air molecules around it giving them a positive charge and attracting them to a grounded aluminum skirting. In the dark the wire would glow orange and blue, and there would be a "metallic" smell in the air due to the ozone gas produced by the process.
A Simon video at 10 pm Eastern, someone forgot something. Also the NASA low boom experimental airplane would be a good side project. My dad has been working on the project for longer than I've been alive and it should start testing this year or the next
@@almitrahopkins1873 Prague is not three time zones east of GMT, it's one, but because the Czech republic follows Central European summer time, the time equals to GMT+2, so 10pm EDT is 6am CEST. All in all, you're almost right👍🏼 Tile zones are confusing...
Kenneth Arnold didn’t actually describe the objects he claimed to have seen as being disk-shaped. He used the term “saucer” to describe their movement (“like saucers skipping across the water”), but the illustrations he used always displayed a rounded flying-wing shape.
Kenneth Arnold, near Boeing's headquarters. Sees a plane shaped like a flying wing. A few years after Americans brought back designs from Germany including their flying wing. Oh.
It has always confused me about his description, though. Who skips saucers over water, and when was this so common that it would be readily understandable to most people? I would have said something like skipping stones over water, and then we'd have flying stones...which are just asteroids and meteors and such.
The novel extent of the Roswell incident: During my time working for Toys R Us, during the latter half of the 1990's, I came across a unique toy made by an obscure company called "Street Players Holding Corp." The toy is a six-inch (15.24cm) figure of a greyish-blue humanoid with a slightly oversized head which features large black eyes in contrast to minimal nose and mouth. The body is proportionally equivalent to human, however sporting only three digits per hand and foot. The figure is equipped with three points of articulation, those being at the neck and both shoulders. The packaging announces the toy as "the Roswell Aliens" and includes the date and location of the infamous incident as well as a brief backstory of the incident (the incident story located on the back of the packaging.) However, the included incident story is based on the conspiracy story of four aliens being found with the wreckage. The packaging also states that the toy was created/released in 1996. Being that the toy was a far cry from the usual G.I. Joe/Star Wars/Barbie etc. type figures which usually covered the shelves/aisles of Toys R Us, I had to have it. Needless to say, the figure still hangs on my wall, in its original packaging, to this day.
Perfect timing. I've been thinking of how to build an ultralight vehicle to look like a flying saucer. I figured the best cheap design that might work would be a ducted fan with the pilot sitting below the top rotor motor, inside the duct's hub (for pendulum dihedral effect for stability), an aerodynamic shell of clear plastic. The main saucer section would be pipe and aluminized mylar with ducts bleeding off the main fan duct for horizontal propulsion as well as 3-axis control. The empty volume of the saucer could be filled with lifting gas for buoyancy. Visibility might seem difficult, but it might be achieved by simply looking through the gas bags and mylar, which might be doable if there isn't too much light on the inside coming through the fan. Alternately, visibility might be achieved by using cameras mounted outside and shown on small LCD screens or projected around the pilot, if the hub is darkened. Or maybe the pilot could wear augmented-reality goggles...perhaps integrated into the helmet... but then the pilot might look like this: 👽
I knew about the Avrocar and I'm happy it's on this list, Canada also have a UFO landing pad in St Paul and a town called Vulcan which are both in Alberta
Pretty sad when a civilization with technology sufficiently advanced to travel between star systems needs us primitive humans to build a landing pad for their suddenly delicate spacecraft.
And Alberta also has Kenny, and nationwide the dictator with his one party system. Leave this land, we are, the world's leaders talking about Canada saying at least we don't live under that taking away basic rights an spying on us worse than putin.... We have to resist. The pm gives police the rogjt to arrest peaceful protest and to make us forget hey cansda "no more masks suprise"
@@derrekvanee4567 Dictator a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force. Trudeau never murdered his opposition or threaten nuclear war. He did help legalize Cannabis though.
At AREA 51-, we got my dad arrested / detained for 9 hours. We were taking pictures of the signs that say "don't take pictures" and then my brother and I ran up the hill. We didn't make it all the way up......... I still have the pictures.
The Flying Wing Bombers of the 1950's failed because computer stability systems weren't available then. The availability of these led to the successful B-2 stealth bomber much later. I often wonder if the AvroCar were revived, whether modern stability systems would overcome the issues that they experienced and make them a practical prospect. Admittedly, the Coanda effect didn't seem to work as well as expected in flight, but that's another area where modern computer modellng might fix it. Sometimes failed concepts are not worthless, just ahead of their time.
Materials have come a long way since the AvroCar, imagine using carbon fiber and other composites instead of metal for the hull/wing. Also engine technologies have really advanced in that you can get a lot more power out of a given size/weight. I think you're right in that having computers to aid in stabilizing the craft would be the biggest game changer.
Thank you. I saw a UFO when I was a kid. Traditional cigar shape. 'Impossible' movement. Nobody was around. I did not see aliens, and even as a kid, it was clear that I had very little idea what I was looking at. Just that I had not explanation. Simply: Unidentified + Flying + Aluminum looking cigar.
"[...]Bokeh Effect[...]and, if you have a night-vision camera with a triangular-shaped iris... you get triangles... and, when that triangle just happens to blink in the exact same cadence as the navigation lights on a 747... then you may have just captured evidence that the Earth is being invaded by JetBlue. -- Joe Scott, "All Right, Let's Talk About The UFO Thing"
Yes. I saw a UFO last week. It was small roundish and glowing redish-blue. It was infront of the trees but it went behind some houses and I never saw it again. Difinately man made, (most likely a toy), but I have no idea what it was.
There are several videos on the internet of drone-like multi-rotor vehicles that can carry people. (Peter Sripol built one that looks like Santa's Sleigh.) The good news is they actually work. The bad news is that range is limited and if they lose power then you fall like a rock because they can't glide like a plane or auto-rotate like a helicopter or autogyro.
Tesla had a design for a flying 'fire escape elevator'. Rows of his famed turbines were mounted to the top of an elevator car to provide lift. When spinning, the turbines were said to create a 'vacuum cell' above the car powerful enough to lift 12 men safely. The elevators would escape the building through sky-lights at the top of elevator shafts and fly to safety. No mention was made as to how one might control such a 'Willy Wonka' elevator while in flight, or how to power it. Would it work? Who knows, he came up with it during his 'shouting at cracks in the sidewalk' phase.
Something that is kind of cool is that both the Ion and EM Drive where discovered as a result of Project Green Glow which was a fly saucer/anti gravity technology program. Both have come a long way since their time as experiments in Project Green Glow and the EM Drive is almost nothing like it's earliest prototype built on that project. But yeah we HAVE actually gotten some very promising tech from a few of the known human experiments to build a flying saucer.
Building a working UFO is like genetically engineering a unicorn: It's rad as hell as long as you don't think about it for more than 5 minutes. It would cost billions of dollars in R&D, and you won't get anything we don't have already (VTOL jets, ponies).
No, his format is fine. I don't watch war video's. Of which he has a couple channels. It's nice not to have to personally filter through all that to get to what I'm into.
The side profile of the B1 is classic flying saucer. The US Air Force have admitted 90% of "UFO" sightings pre 2000 were indeed their own aircraft, mostly B2, F117 and U2.
Another channel?? Take any word, put “graphics” behind it and Simon will make a channel out of it. How about beard-graphics, the UA-cam channel about history’s most beautiful beards. Or Taco-graphics.
@@JohnHoranzy yeah it has been done. Especially within the year I made this comment. What you're missing is A) the scale as mentioned and B) they are using the coanda effect as a replacement for wings. No one has made a reasonable, saucer shaped drone utilizing omnidirectional coanda lifting surfaces with anything but marginal efficiency. What we need to see are the use of composites to increase lifting area without dramatically increasing weight, and the use of ducted fans to increase efficiency. If you've found an example, shoot me a link. The mysterious algorithm has withheld many a good result from my searches.
@@keatoncampbell820 it has been done but was not very impressive even though he did good engineering with several iterations. Is there a use case for even needing to use the Conada effect over other forms of lift?
@@JohnHoranzy maybe. That's the point of science: to fuck around and find out. Besides a flying saucer is cool and composites make it far more feasible now. There is some benefit to stealth actually as dinner plate shapes don't reflect much radar except at the rim, so the cross section it very small.
The recent sightings by our Navy Pilots is the greatest evidence that UFO's do exist. But ostensibly, that doesn't mean they are Alien...but they are crafts of some sort based on the data collected. I think those sightings by Navy personnel adds credence to the whole notion that something is out there. Exciting times!!
In 1948 it was more likely the gentleman in the light aircraft saw the USAF testing captured German flying wings as he actually stated the craft looked more like crescent moons that being round.
I'm vetol technology has come such a long way since the first advrol car was created that I wouldn't be surprised if they have a much better advrol craft than the first attempt. In theory, Frost thought his craft could do amazing things in theory and wouldn't be surprised if the military has a much better vehicle than what was first tried
You may be onto something. Obviously if an alien had 27 UA-cam channels with a vast audience, they would try to convince that audience aliens don't exist. It adds up is all I'm saying
Because he's too arrogant to actually do research on the subject. Almost every bit of info he talks about in this video on UFO and Aliens, is all the same bullshit Project Bluebook and other debunkers have been saying for years. Once he said "First UFO sighting was in 1947" I immediately knew the rest was gonna be recycled misinformation bullshit. It's just hilarious that people still think like this, with all the Government and Nato documents on the subject, you'd think people would wakeup and realize it isn't Science fiction.
You should cover the TR-3B ASTRA better known as the "Belgium Wave UFO" and TR-6 TELOS which was the "UFO" sighted during the Phoenix Lights Incident and both made right here on good old planet Earth
Suggestion: the Old River Control Structure. I had to cross the Atchafalaya river a few weeks ago, and I REALLY don't like tall bridges. And the ORCS is what's keeping the Mississippi river going through New Orleans -- if it fails, the Atchafalaya becomes the Lower Mississippi, the port of New Orleans is left useless, and all of Cajun country gets washed out into the Gulf of Mexico. And I would've made a joke about that, but I have a Cajun friend now, and I worry about her when there's a minor hurricane..
There was a TV series in the 70s, maybe 80s, my memory is kind of flaky on this, but, perhaps the aliens changed my mind. But there was a show called "Project Blue Book." It might have been just an episode of "In Search Of" and of course, it was narrated by Leonard Nimoy.....Spock. And Spock's an alien, so, there's that.
17:28 - They are restoring one of these bad boys at the chino CA airport. Saw it out of it's hangar being worked on about 2 years ago during a breakfast fly-in. . . wonder if it's complete. . . .
The shape of a flying saucer is impractical in reality, the shape is neither aerodynamic (they have a bad aspect ratio in the atmosphere) nor is it good for pressurization in the vacuum of space.
The biggest thing I hate about the alien culture is every time I mention Groom Lake or Area 51. Everyone starts to lose their head. No, there are no aliens of craft from another world. Everything being worked on at Groom Lake is 60 years in the future. Everything is designed by humans for humans.
60 years ahead I think overstatement. but there really are top secret projects like stealth fighters and bombers designed in the early 70's and built in the 80's and 90's
@@renatoigmed If you want to think 60 years is an overstatement that is your right. Obviously, you've been a civilian your whole life and have no true concept of what is going on. I grew up around all the black projects from Groom Lake and Edwards Air Force Base.
@@prudencepineapple9448 No it wasn't... The triangular craft has never been declassified. Also the F117 on the bottom doesn't have 3 lights on each corner, with a Red light in the center. The "Belgium UFO" wave was Lockheed Skunkworks black project "TR-3B" aircraft. Quit spreading misinformation, especially when it takes 5mins to find the facts.
The Avrocar wasn't a failure. As the first ever iteration of the lift engine, and as the VTOL half of a supersonic fighter, it worked well, and did everything it needed. It didn't need to go higher or faster, because circular (very-low aspect-ratio) wings and normal propulsive jets would let it take off. For precedents of such wings working well, see the 1930s Nemeth "parachute plane". Faster than the plane which the fuselage and engines came from, super-STOL, stall-spin proof, with 45 degree climb and 60 degree descent. Similar performance was amply demonstrated for the 1930s Arup airplanes from Indiana ("Air + Up") The direct antecedent of the Vought V-173 "flapjack", it was simpler and more efficient. Quick on little power, stall-proof. Arguably the intellectual ancestor of all interest in such things. See the "flying heel-lift" youtube, and video of the Nemeth, and of the Eshelman "flounder" of the 1940s.. The USAF and Avro Canada were looking towards the "Weapons system 606A". Nothing mythical, no fancy electromagnetic lift, just the Avrocar's lift engine and the Arup or Nemeth wing. Add fins and eliminate the need for the complex air-blowing controls. Show another landing gear for a supersonic fighter that can do the rough-field maneuvering we see the Avrocar doing. Over water or snow too. Simultaneously to the Avro effort, see the Sukhanov "Discoplan" gliders (both in museums today) working towards a discoid, super-STOL supersonic fighter. They also worked well, though interest waned at about the same time the USAF dropped the "606a". Letayushchiy (flying) disk Летающий диск (1964) 17:20 ua-cam.com/video/UQ1XiIMgLck/v-deo.html video ua-cam.com/video/at77GUZm9rY/v-deo.html Lest anybody think that such a discoid wing plane couldn't work: the Rowe "UFO" ("Useless Flying Object") ua-cam.com/video/eFgr90LobAQ/v-deo.html Today also, we have the very successful Dyke Delta and the Verhees Delta light planes, though not circular, the same sort of "all-wing" very-low aspect-ratio. The hard truth is that conventional wings don't soar above the known aeronautical science of several round or very short aspect-ratio wings that are ignored and dropped, just because they look funny. The Nemeth and the Arup being two big examples: Markedly superior in all criteria to "normal" planes. The biggest cause of death of many successful planes is that they violate every part of "if it looks right, it'll fly right" which is a hard and fast rule, permitting of no exceptions.
Before we leave? We haven't even seen the intro. I mean, videos are hit and miss, but I don't think that anyone would leave immediately after the intro.
@@bubbajones6907 What are you talking about? The V-173 was successful in demonstrating decreased landing speed and runway length, high alpha maneuvering, simplified manufacturing, increased structural strength.
Ugh, this again. No, the original design of the avrocar directed the thrust out the rim of the disk not the bottom. Not air, thrust from a "pancake" jet engine. This was a jet engine with circular burner configuration that emitted thrust from the perimeter of the engine rather than axially. The intake of the engine was on top of the disk (that "fan" visible on top was the first compressor fan of the engine). Thrust emitted from the rim induced the coanda effect over the upper surface of the aircraft. However, once it got out of ground effect it became unstable, which they referred to as "hubcapping". The problem was a column of turbulence under the aircraft. Holes were added to the underside of the aircraft and thrust bled off to try and stabilize it, but this only reduced the lift capacity and it still couldn't get out of ground effect. However, decades later people have built coanda effect based UAVs that work on the same principal (look up the Aesir coanda effect drone here on UA-cam). The instability is solved in the same way as with a multirotor, you throw an electronic gyro at the problem and have a cheap STM32 based computer stabilize it with a PID control loop running at a few khz refresh rate all contained on a postage stamp sized PCB, problem solved (not fixed, just "solved"). The computer adjusts the aircraft's directional control faster than the turbulence can affect stability. This is exactly the same way a multirotor drone can remain stable despite being inherently highly unstable aerodynamicly. You don't even bother "fixing" it you just brute force it with a computer that controls it faster than it can manage to tip itself over. You aren't really "flying" it you're just telling the computer what pitch and roll rates to implement with the stick inputs. The reason the avrocar didn't work wasn't because it couldn't have flown it was because coanda effect aircraft need computer controlled stability that had not been invented yet. Same reason practical multirotors didn't really take off until the 2010's.
I would have liked to have seen something on uap's which the US is interested in and the fact that the navy has observed visually and via sensors odd aircraft like objects maneuvering.
Simon, did you ever do a segment on the "tic tac" aliens off Norfolk VA and on the West Coast UFOs in Virginia Beach? Navy pilots report sightings near Oceana
I remember seeing a photograph o a purported UFO. First thing that went through my mind was, Oh my God, that's the ceing light that hangs from my grandad's workshop!! The pic was from the 40s or 50s and the idiots even left the light bulbs in it. Now I see drawings of that same thing and the bulbs are the electromagnetic drive systems...
I was stationed at Fort Eustis for training in 2000 and parked between two hangars was a scrapped disk shaped aircraft. Not very large. About the size of two parking spaces.
Many revolutionary design is still on drawing bord because of lack of a high power source, when a power sources powerful yet small is invented, everything will change.
Omg I now know how Simon keeps up with all of his channels... Its so obvious I don't need to be dissuaded by watching the video. OF COURSE it's because of history channels aliens.
Rumour has it the US has been researching a proper UFO style craft from some time, I can't remember exactly how its supposed to work but I know it is said to involve many holes around the outside of a round vehicle a gas and pulsing of something or other, though said holes I don't think it's anything they've said too much about but there is some info out there, I read about it a few years ago but even then what they knew was very limited. The theory was they would create a small isolated bubble which could contain the vehicle removing friction from the equation. I think all their tests used fans in a drome like setup for the hovering though so ti wasn't physics breaking. Does make you wonder what tech they or anyone maybe holding back though for their own security reasons.
Oddly enough Corridor Crew recently debunked a highly popular UFO sighting. Turned out it was an automated smart weather balloon. The more things change..
A disk... Two Simi spheres..... Or a very squashed ball... Is the least radar detectable shape... (Most stealth) Since the discovery of radar we (all governments) have been trying to make that shape fly!
How exactly does that Wuav thing work? Like a Dyson bladless fan on steroids pointed down? Cuz it almost sounds like the mythical reactionless drive if it's not moving air.
1:10 Excuse me, but the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was, in fact, alien. Granted, it was a big rock, but it was still a big-ass extra-terrestrial rock.
That is the most likely cause for the dinosaur's extinction because most evidence suggests this but there is no definitive answer so it's more of a theory than fact. Also it was an asteroid not a meteor that this theory is centered around(a meteor which is a chunk of a comet or asteroid would've been too small to cause such havoc.) But yeah the thought of the look on the dino's faces when this "supposed" earth shattering rock coming to kill them makes me wonder if they called the asteroid Dwayne.
Avro Car: "I'll have a ceiling of 100,000 feet!!"
Also Avro Car: "Uuuuhhh, would you believe 2 feet?"
In high school and college I built small ionocraft, similar in concept to the WEMAVs, and powered them with the necessary 30-50kV using the flyback transformer from CRT monitors or televisions.
Constructed in a triangular shape, taking advantage of Faraday's principle of charge accumulation, a high voltage corona wire would ionize the air molecules around it giving them a positive charge and attracting them to a grounded aluminum skirting. In the dark the wire would glow orange and blue, and there would be a "metallic" smell in the air due to the ozone gas produced by the process.
been seeing these lately on science channels, I believe "the action lab" was one of them.
A Simon video at 10 pm Eastern, someone forgot something. Also the NASA low boom experimental airplane would be a good side project. My dad has been working on the project for longer than I've been alive and it should start testing this year or the next
10:00 pm EDT is 4:00 am GMT as I recall. He’s in Prague, so that’s another 3 time zones east, if I’m not mistaken.
That’s what I was thinking!
Same
@@almitrahopkins1873 Prague is not three time zones east of GMT, it's one, but because the Czech republic follows Central European summer time, the time equals to GMT+2, so 10pm EDT is 6am CEST. All in all, you're almost right👍🏼 Tile zones are confusing...
@@atlehassum1492 Even at that, the video went up in the morning in Prague.
Kenneth Arnold didn’t actually describe the objects he claimed to have seen as being disk-shaped. He used the term “saucer” to describe their movement (“like saucers skipping across the water”), but the illustrations he used always displayed a rounded flying-wing shape.
You're absolutely correct. He described them as being a 'crescent' shape.
@@wildlifetails There was a flood of UFO sightings after Star Wars and Close Encounters of the third Kind were released.
Kenneth Arnold, near Boeing's headquarters. Sees a plane shaped like a flying wing. A few years after Americans brought back designs from Germany including their flying wing. Oh.
It has always confused me about his description, though. Who skips saucers over water, and when was this so common that it would be readily understandable to most people? I would have said something like skipping stones over water, and then we'd have flying stones...which are just asteroids and meteors and such.
2:30 - Chapter 1 - Background
6:20 - Chapter 2 - The avrocar
10:55 - Chapter 3 - Astro V dynafan
13:30 - Chapter 4 - Wingless electromagnetic air vehicle
15:15 - Chapter 5 - Honorable mentions
15:45 - Chapter 5.1 - Low density supersonic decelerator
16:40 - Chapter 5.2 - Round wing planes
The novel extent of the Roswell incident: During my time working for Toys R Us, during the latter half of the 1990's, I came across a unique toy made by an obscure company called "Street Players Holding Corp." The toy is a six-inch (15.24cm) figure of a greyish-blue humanoid with a slightly oversized head which features large black eyes in contrast to minimal nose and mouth. The body is proportionally equivalent to human, however sporting only three digits per hand and foot. The figure is equipped with three points of articulation, those being at the neck and both shoulders. The packaging announces the toy as "the Roswell Aliens" and includes the date and location of the infamous incident as well as a brief backstory of the incident (the incident story located on the back of the packaging.) However, the included incident story is based on the conspiracy story of four aliens being found with the wreckage. The packaging also states that the toy was created/released in 1996.
Being that the toy was a far cry from the usual G.I. Joe/Star Wars/Barbie etc. type figures which usually covered the shelves/aisles of Toys R Us, I had to have it. Needless to say, the figure still hangs on my wall, in its original packaging, to this day.
Perfect timing. I've been thinking of how to build an ultralight vehicle to look like a flying saucer. I figured the best cheap design that might work would be a ducted fan with the pilot sitting below the top rotor motor, inside the duct's hub (for pendulum dihedral effect for stability), an aerodynamic shell of clear plastic. The main saucer section would be pipe and aluminized mylar with ducts bleeding off the main fan duct for horizontal propulsion as well as 3-axis control. The empty volume of the saucer could be filled with lifting gas for buoyancy.
Visibility might seem difficult, but it might be achieved by simply looking through the gas bags and mylar, which might be doable if there isn't too much light on the inside coming through the fan. Alternately, visibility might be achieved by using cameras mounted outside and shown on small LCD screens or projected around the pilot, if the hub is darkened. Or maybe the pilot could wear augmented-reality goggles...perhaps integrated into the helmet... but then the pilot might look like this: 👽
Augmented reality HUD is probably the way to go depending on project budget
Also potentially 4 smaller rotors would improve stability and manoeuvrability a lot but would obviously seriously add to takeoff weight
I worked in Bell aerospace and I talked with the old men that built the averocar. It was built to the government's specification.
I knew about the Avrocar and I'm happy it's on this list, Canada also have a UFO landing pad in St Paul and a town called Vulcan which are both in Alberta
Pretty sad when a civilization with technology sufficiently advanced to travel between star systems needs us primitive humans to build a landing pad for their suddenly delicate spacecraft.
And Alberta also has Kenny, and nationwide the dictator with his one party system. Leave this land, we are, the world's leaders talking about Canada saying at least we don't live under that taking away basic rights an spying on us worse than putin.... We have to resist. The pm gives police the rogjt to arrest peaceful protest and to make us forget hey cansda "no more masks suprise"
@@derrekvanee4567
Dictator
a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
Trudeau never murdered his opposition or threaten nuclear war.
He did help legalize Cannabis though.
@@missheadbanger Bingo! The only thing I will give him full credit for... #puffpuffpass
Avrocar was 'fixed' from it's failures with a skirt. Inventing the first hovercraft. All hovercraft followed from that.
Well, there are households, where flying saucers are pretty common thing. However, those are rather products of rage than science... 😁
Ahhh, childhood nostalgia..😂😂😂
Truth. I'm told Tupperware lids make great flying objects
I love hearing Simon say Mississauga 😂
I've had to play it for my Canadian wife a few times now, we enjoyed it.
The Flash of light you saw was swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and refracting the light from Venus.
Happens to me all the time lol
@@prepperjonpnw6482 That's my favorite line from men in black which I like to drop on occasions like this.☺️🙃😉
Or...aliens!
At AREA 51-, we got my dad arrested / detained for 9 hours.
We were taking pictures of the signs that say "don't take pictures" and then my brother and I ran up the hill. We didn't make it all the way up.........
I still have the pictures.
Wouldn't you love to know what they're doing in there.
The Flying Wing Bombers of the 1950's failed because computer stability systems weren't available then. The availability of these led to the successful B-2 stealth bomber much later. I often wonder if the AvroCar were revived, whether modern stability systems would overcome the issues that they experienced and make them a practical prospect. Admittedly, the Coanda effect didn't seem to work as well as expected in flight, but that's another area where modern computer modellng might fix it. Sometimes failed concepts are not worthless, just ahead of their time.
Materials have come a long way since the AvroCar, imagine using carbon fiber and other composites instead of metal for the hull/wing. Also engine technologies have really advanced in that you can get a lot more power out of a given size/weight. I think you're right in that having computers to aid in stabilizing the craft would be the biggest game changer.
"This video was released at an unusual time due to a riot and a subsequent escape attempt from the basement. We apologize for any confusion." Lol
Sounds like Danny's been getting ideas from LockPickingLawyer
Miss-a-saw-ga, Ontario is the place.
"UFO" just means "unidentified flying object".
If you're bad at identifying stuff a 747 can be a UFO.
Thank you. I saw a UFO when I was a kid. Traditional cigar shape. 'Impossible' movement. Nobody was around. I did not see aliens, and even as a kid, it was clear that I had very little idea what I was looking at. Just that I had not explanation.
Simply: Unidentified + Flying + Aluminum looking cigar.
"[...]Bokeh Effect[...]and, if you have a night-vision camera with a triangular-shaped iris... you get triangles... and, when that triangle just happens to blink in the exact same cadence as the navigation lights on a 747... then you may have just captured evidence that the Earth is being invaded by JetBlue. -- Joe Scott, "All Right, Let's Talk About The UFO Thing"
Yes. I saw a UFO last week. It was small roundish and glowing redish-blue. It was infront of the trees but it went behind some houses and I never saw it again. Difinately man made, (most likely a toy), but I have no idea what it was.
Such as the B2 which is very alien looking but human built aircraft and flys around Nevada
I used to throw around flying discs a lot when I was younger.😊
9:26
You know, if you could stabilize that and make it cost effective, we might have a shot at hovercars after all.
10:51 Simon and I, same page.
There are several videos on the internet of drone-like multi-rotor vehicles that can carry people. (Peter Sripol built one that looks like Santa's Sleigh.) The good news is they actually work. The bad news is that range is limited and if they lose power then you fall like a rock because they can't glide like a plane or auto-rotate like a helicopter or autogyro.
Tesla had a design for a flying 'fire escape elevator'.
Rows of his famed turbines were mounted to the top of an elevator car to provide lift.
When spinning, the turbines were said to create a 'vacuum cell' above the car powerful enough to lift 12 men safely.
The elevators would escape the building through sky-lights at the top of elevator shafts and fly to safety.
No mention was made as to how one might control such a 'Willy Wonka' elevator while in flight, or how to power it.
Would it work?
Who knows, he came up with it during his 'shouting at cracks in the sidewalk' phase.
Something that is kind of cool is that both the Ion and EM Drive where discovered as a result of Project Green Glow which was a fly saucer/anti gravity technology program. Both have come a long way since their time as experiments in Project Green Glow and the EM Drive is almost nothing like it's earliest prototype built on that project. But yeah we HAVE actually gotten some very promising tech from a few of the known human experiments to build a flying saucer.
Building a working UFO is like genetically engineering a unicorn: It's rad as hell as long as you don't think about it for more than 5 minutes. It would cost billions of dollars in R&D, and you won't get anything we don't have already (VTOL jets, ponies).
Simon, one channel. That's all we need.
No, his format is fine. I don't watch war video's. Of which he has a couple channels. It's nice not to have to personally filter through all that to get to what I'm into.
Arnold didn't say they were disc shaped (he was holding a rendition of what he saw), he said that they moved like saucers skipping over water.
The side profile of the B1 is classic flying saucer. The US Air Force have admitted 90% of "UFO" sightings pre 2000 were indeed their own aircraft, mostly B2, F117 and U2.
CIA, actually. They even tweeted about it.
Now, whether they were truthful or simply covering something up... Oh well.
I always thought that the B2 seen from the front looked like a flying saucer.
Another channel?? Take any word, put “graphics” behind it and Simon will make a channel out of it. How about beard-graphics, the UA-cam channel about history’s most beautiful beards. Or Taco-graphics.
Yeah he is really going for all the channels 😳
He defo should do Beardgraphics.
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Fit girlgraphics.
Of course there are intelligent life forms out there. And they avoid this place like the plague.
Simon!! Miss-iss-saw-ga… and my stepfather worked on the Avrocar.
Wow, thanks, Simon! I had, up till now, been wondering who flattened the Earth. Reckon those aliens need a good slapping.
A new RC plane/drone design I see! Coanda effect would be interesting, probably easier to use at scale with plastics.
It has been done. Search youtube
@@JohnHoranzy yeah it has been done. Especially within the year I made this comment.
What you're missing is A) the scale as mentioned and B) they are using the coanda effect as a replacement for wings. No one has made a reasonable, saucer shaped drone utilizing omnidirectional coanda lifting surfaces with anything but marginal efficiency.
What we need to see are the use of composites to increase lifting area without dramatically increasing weight, and the use of ducted fans to increase efficiency.
If you've found an example, shoot me a link. The mysterious algorithm has withheld many a good result from my searches.
@@keatoncampbell820 it has been done but was not very impressive even though he did good engineering with several iterations. Is there a use case for even needing to use the Conada effect over other forms of lift?
@@JohnHoranzy maybe. That's the point of science: to fuck around and find out.
Besides a flying saucer is cool and composites make it far more feasible now. There is some benefit to stealth actually as dinner plate shapes don't reflect much radar except at the rim, so the cross section it very small.
Last time I was this early Simon didn’t have a beard.
The recent sightings by our Navy Pilots is the greatest evidence that UFO's do exist. But ostensibly, that doesn't mean they are Alien...but they are crafts of some sort based on the data collected. I think those sightings by Navy personnel adds credence to the whole notion that something is out there. Exciting times!!
"who knows what could happen if we re-visit the astro car" ... LAUGHING, INSULTS, MEMES, and just a general waste of money... LETS DO IT!!!!
In 1948 it was more likely the gentleman in the light aircraft saw the USAF testing captured German flying wings as he actually stated the craft looked more like crescent moons that being round.
One explanation said they could have been pelicans.
Damn, I was about to go to bed Simon.....guess not lol
I'm vetol technology has come such a long way since the first advrol car was created that I wouldn't be surprised if they have a much better advrol craft than the first attempt. In theory, Frost thought his craft could do amazing things in theory and wouldn't be surprised if the military has a much better vehicle than what was first tried
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*Amen, brother!*
Lol
The mast successful flying saucer design: The Frisbee.
Curious why Simon is trying to convince us so hard that there are no aliens 🧐🤔.. Alien! 😳🤯
You may be onto something. Obviously if an alien had 27 UA-cam channels with a vast audience, they would try to convince that audience aliens don't exist. It adds up is all I'm saying
Simon actually says there are aliens.
Because he's too arrogant to actually do research on the subject. Almost every bit of info he talks about in this video on UFO and Aliens, is all the same bullshit Project Bluebook and other debunkers have been saying for years. Once he said "First UFO sighting was in 1947" I immediately knew the rest was gonna be recycled misinformation bullshit. It's just hilarious that people still think like this, with all the Government and Nato documents on the subject, you'd think people would wakeup and realize it isn't Science fiction.
Obviously Simon couldn’t possibly make content for so many channels without help from space aliens 😂
Well yeah ofcourse just watch em talk no human is that suave and awkward at the same time
There is a flying saucer on a pedestal at the Army Transportation Museum. It just outside Ft Eustice, Virginia.
The most Canadian aircraft ever, flying pancake and or hockey puck
You should cover the TR-3B ASTRA better known as the "Belgium Wave UFO" and TR-6 TELOS which was the "UFO" sighted during the Phoenix Lights Incident and both made right here on good old planet Earth
Suggestion: the Old River Control Structure. I had to cross the Atchafalaya river a few weeks ago, and I REALLY don't like tall bridges. And the ORCS is what's keeping the Mississippi river going through New Orleans -- if it fails, the Atchafalaya becomes the Lower Mississippi, the port of New Orleans is left useless, and all of Cajun country gets washed out into the Gulf of Mexico. And I would've made a joke about that, but I have a Cajun friend now, and I worry about her when there's a minor hurricane..
Bob Lazar should be able to built one with his knowledge of UFO’s.
I am not saying it believe in Bob Lazar but his body language when telling his story has all the hallmarks of truth.
Simon is an alien and his job is to make use believe that they aren't here already
So glad yoy mentioned David Rowes UFO plane
I remember when I was younger, I seen the flying desk, in fact I actually threw it, it was called a frisbee. Never ever seen it again.
There was a TV series in the 70s, maybe 80s, my memory is kind of flaky on this, but, perhaps the aliens changed my mind. But there was a show called "Project Blue Book." It might have been just an episode of "In Search Of" and of course, it was narrated by Leonard Nimoy.....Spock. And Spock's an alien, so, there's that.
Please do the Kirov class battle cruisers!
Good video 👍
17:28 - They are restoring one of these bad boys at the chino CA airport. Saw it out of it's hangar being worked on about 2 years ago during a breakfast fly-in. . . wonder if it's complete. . . .
Yuri's Collection Agency-
Spinning Away!!!
My God this Guy is a DYNAMO of information
Ja man. Some good stuff for the nightshift. Thx
The shape of a flying saucer is impractical in reality, the shape is neither aerodynamic (they have a bad aspect ratio in the atmosphere) nor is it good for pressurization in the vacuum of space.
Simon, can you do a video on the material released by the US gov't/Military about UFO sightings?
Whatever happened to Simon’s patented “BA-DOOM-DOOM-TSSS!”? I was so waiting for it after telling me that the Astro Car, “never got off the ground”.
The biggest thing I hate about the alien culture is every time I mention Groom Lake or Area 51. Everyone starts to lose their head.
No, there are no aliens of craft from another world.
Everything being worked on at Groom Lake is 60 years in the future. Everything is designed by humans for humans.
60 years ahead I think overstatement. but there really are top secret projects like stealth fighters and bombers designed in the early 70's and built in the 80's and 90's
Do you remember 2 decades ago when a 'triangular' UFO was sighted all over the world? It turned out to be a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.
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If you want to think 60 years is an overstatement that is your right.
Obviously, you've been a civilian your whole life and have no true concept of what is going on.
I grew up around all the black projects from Groom Lake and Edwards Air Force Base.
@@prudencepineapple9448 No it wasn't... The triangular craft has never been declassified. Also the F117 on the bottom doesn't have 3 lights on each corner, with a Red light in the center. The "Belgium UFO" wave was Lockheed Skunkworks black project "TR-3B" aircraft. Quit spreading misinformation, especially when it takes 5mins to find the facts.
Doesn't Groom Lake drain into Bride Creek?
Do the boeing E-3 sentry and Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye! Very interesting planes
The Avrocar wasn't a failure. As the first ever iteration of the lift engine, and as the VTOL half of a supersonic fighter, it worked well, and did everything it needed.
It didn't need to go higher or faster, because circular (very-low aspect-ratio) wings and normal propulsive jets would let it take off.
For precedents of such wings working well, see the 1930s Nemeth "parachute plane". Faster than the plane which the fuselage and engines came from, super-STOL, stall-spin proof, with 45 degree climb and 60 degree descent.
Similar performance was amply demonstrated for the 1930s Arup airplanes from Indiana ("Air + Up") The direct antecedent of the Vought V-173 "flapjack", it was simpler and more efficient. Quick on little power, stall-proof. Arguably the intellectual ancestor of all interest in such things.
See the "flying heel-lift" youtube, and video of the Nemeth, and of the Eshelman "flounder" of the 1940s..
The USAF and Avro Canada were looking towards the "Weapons system 606A". Nothing mythical, no fancy electromagnetic lift, just the Avrocar's lift engine and the Arup or Nemeth wing. Add fins and eliminate the need for the complex air-blowing controls.
Show another landing gear for a supersonic fighter that can do the rough-field maneuvering we see the Avrocar doing. Over water or snow too.
Simultaneously to the Avro effort, see the Sukhanov "Discoplan" gliders (both in museums today) working towards a discoid, super-STOL supersonic fighter.
They also worked well, though interest waned at about the same time the USAF dropped the "606a".
Letayushchiy (flying) disk
Летающий диск (1964) 17:20
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Lest anybody think that such a discoid wing plane couldn't work:
the Rowe "UFO" ("Useless Flying Object")
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Today also, we have the very successful Dyke Delta and the Verhees Delta light planes, though not circular, the same sort of "all-wing" very-low aspect-ratio.
The hard truth is that conventional wings don't soar above the known aeronautical science of several round or very short aspect-ratio wings that are ignored and dropped, just because they look funny. The Nemeth and the Arup being two big examples: Markedly superior in all criteria to "normal" planes.
The biggest cause of death of many successful planes is that they violate every part of "if it looks right, it'll fly right" which is a hard and fast rule, permitting of no exceptions.
I love UFOs. It's amazing the kind of shenanigans aircraft manufacturers get up to.
Simon already at his 12th channel. I am about to need a second subscriptions upload tab just for Simon's content 😅
Many a poor beleaguered husband at the wrong end of the kitchen has seen flying saucers first-hand.
Before we leave? We haven't even seen the intro. I mean, videos are hit and miss, but I don't think that anyone would leave immediately after the intro.
When someone hears somebody else saying "it's not aliens", they just think ur an alien or r covering up aliens😂
Low density supersonic deaccelerator sounds like something Marvin the martian would use.
"now just before you leave" at the start of the video xD
The Vought V-173 was an amazing design, decades ahead of its time.
How so?
Wasn't it a total failure? What else would expect if you based an aircraft design on illustrations from an old comic book?
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What are you talking about? The V-173 was successful in demonstrating decreased landing speed and runway length, high alpha maneuvering, simplified manufacturing, increased structural strength.
Even if they did exist it must be increasingly easier to pass off any UFO as a drone these days
I love Aliens and ghosts but I really love.. Alien ghosts 😱
Ugh, this again. No, the original design of the avrocar directed the thrust out the rim of the disk not the bottom. Not air, thrust from a "pancake" jet engine. This was a jet engine with circular burner configuration that emitted thrust from the perimeter of the engine rather than axially. The intake of the engine was on top of the disk (that "fan" visible on top was the first compressor fan of the engine).
Thrust emitted from the rim induced the coanda effect over the upper surface of the aircraft. However, once it got out of ground effect it became unstable, which they referred to as "hubcapping". The problem was a column of turbulence under the aircraft. Holes were added to the underside of the aircraft and thrust bled off to try and stabilize it, but this only reduced the lift capacity and it still couldn't get out of ground effect.
However, decades later people have built coanda effect based UAVs that work on the same principal (look up the Aesir coanda effect drone here on UA-cam). The instability is solved in the same way as with a multirotor, you throw an electronic gyro at the problem and have a cheap STM32 based computer stabilize it with a PID control loop running at a few khz refresh rate all contained on a postage stamp sized PCB, problem solved (not fixed, just "solved"). The computer adjusts the aircraft's directional control faster than the turbulence can affect stability. This is exactly the same way a multirotor drone can remain stable despite being inherently highly unstable aerodynamicly. You don't even bother "fixing" it you just brute force it with a computer that controls it faster than it can manage to tip itself over. You aren't really "flying" it you're just telling the computer what pitch and roll rates to implement with the stick inputs.
The reason the avrocar didn't work wasn't because it couldn't have flown it was because coanda effect aircraft need computer controlled stability that had not been invented yet. Same reason practical multirotors didn't really take off until the 2010's.
I could spend an entire day just watching Simon talk about shit.
I would have liked to have seen something on uap's which the US is interested in and the fact that the navy has observed visually and via sensors odd aircraft like objects maneuvering.
Simon, did you ever do a segment on the "tic tac" aliens off Norfolk VA and on the West Coast
UFOs in Virginia Beach? Navy pilots report sightings near Oceana
For a moment i read 'attempts to Take flying saucers'... That 'll be the day :-)
I remember seeing a photograph o a purported UFO. First thing that went through my mind was, Oh my God, that's the ceing light that hangs from my grandad's workshop!! The pic was from the 40s or 50s and the idiots even left the light bulbs in it. Now I see drawings of that same thing and the bulbs are the electromagnetic drive systems...
A brief history of UFO shapes:
1950s - Saucer
1970s - Cigar
1990s - V-wing
2010s - Tic Tac
2020s - Starship. And chad. His dammit Chad get your dope cookie plate outta my republican rant!
I can testify from my experience piloting aircraft in GTA 5 that helicopters are indeed difficult to control.
I was stationed at Fort Eustis for training in 2000 and parked between two hangars was a scrapped disk shaped aircraft. Not very large. About the size of two parking spaces.
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I'm glad they didn't oversell how easy it was to fly the Dynacar...smh
I feel like with modern manufacturing techniques and computers we could pull something similar to this off
Many revolutionary design is still on drawing bord because of lack of a high power source, when a power sources powerful yet small is invented, everything will change.
Simon dunking on stupid alien conspiracists will never get old.
Omg I now know how Simon keeps up with all of his channels... Its so obvious I don't need to be dissuaded by watching the video. OF COURSE it's because of history channels aliens.
Rumour has it the US has been researching a proper UFO style craft from some time, I can't remember exactly how its supposed to work but I know it is said to involve many holes around the outside of a round vehicle a gas and pulsing of something or other, though said holes I don't think it's anything they've said too much about but there is some info out there, I read about it a few years ago but even then what they knew was very limited.
The theory was they would create a small isolated bubble which could contain the vehicle removing friction from the equation. I think all their tests used fans in a drome like setup for the hovering though so ti wasn't physics breaking.
Does make you wonder what tech they or anyone maybe holding back though for their own security reasons.
Oddly enough Corridor Crew recently debunked a highly popular UFO sighting. Turned out it was an automated smart weather balloon. The more things change..
You better mention the beautiful Sack AS-6 ... damn, he didn't.
Great, Another channel Simon? `Ive already stopped dating to keep up with he other ones, Im not good at multitasking!
I kinda think the dome on the E3 AWACS should have received an honorable mention. For no other reason than...because why not?
Exo-atmospheric kinetic kill vehicles is my favourite ufo name
A disk... Two Simi spheres..... Or a very squashed ball...
Is the least radar detectable shape... (Most stealth)
Since the discovery of radar we (all governments) have been trying to make that shape fly!
So it's just a huge lawn/leaf-blower?
Sorry can't put on my tin foil hat, I just used it to microwave a potato. Sadly it came out as popcorn...
"Just before you leave today" at the very beginning of the video.
Not too optimistic, are we?
What i really wanna know is how they confirmed flying saucers weren't a threat
Mississauga didn’t exist at the time. Was known as ‘Malton’ My grandfather was an engineer at Avro Canada.
Hey. Let's not be slagging Mississauga. 🤣
How exactly does that Wuav thing work? Like a Dyson bladless fan on steroids pointed down? Cuz it almost sounds like the mythical reactionless drive if it's not moving air.
Fact boy should do a video with Internet Historian.
Next channel is just a channel about all of simons channels